His career ruined, his marriage over and his father murdered...Drum Bailey moves to the island he inherited just west of Ocean City, Maryland to find some direction in his life. But the kidnapping of an old family friend lures him to the jungles of Mexico and forces him to go up against a cartel financier and one of Mexico's wealthiest and most dangerous families. He enters a maelstrom of sex, greed, murder and survival as he tries to find the many answers that haunt him.